Author: Dutchy
Date: 2007-03-11 16:34
Second the "get real reeds" advice. Cheap, poorly made reeds--reeds made in a hurry--are much more likely to be basically flat from Day One.
Also, be VERY hesitant about trimming or otherwise tweaking your reed unless you're absolutely positive that it's the reed and not your embouchure. I am embarrassed to admit that at the beginning of my oboe career, I ruined a perfectly good Fox reed by assuming that the flatness was due to the reed, and dutifully trimming off the tip as the reed-adjusting info said I should. It didn't help.
But IMO you're not up to the stage of tweaking reeds yet. Get some "real reeds", learn to play on those, so you know how a reed is supposed to sound, and then you'll be in a position to adjust subsequent reeds.
Please tell us who you bought your eBay reeds from. We're dying of curiosity. If it was from Brian Charles, know that I found his reeds to be too hard (stiff) to play at the beginning--but that wasn't the reed's fault.
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